Well it looks like Harvey just ended Trump's wall

^^This. This right here is your whole point in a nutshell. Simple and eloquent. On the other hand, Obama giving billions to Iran when we can't pay
for everything.........giving 1/5 of our foreign aid budget to Israel when we can't pay for everything........the massive DoD pig trough they all feed
off of.....there's always money for that, sadly enough.

Go to any construction site in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, etc., and they are all Mexicans. Many illegal, although some have
scored a green card via their bosses who broke the law to hire them, then vouches for them to immigration and pays for the green card fees, plus the
penalty for being here illegally. I used to work for Homeland Security in immigration, issuing green cards and work visas (H1B and H1B1).

Some are excellent. Some are underpaid and are terrible at what they do, so when you buy a new house, the light switches are put in backwards, the
welding on the copper piping for plumbing breaks, and the roofing is iffy. These are things the building inspector cannot always find out about, the
one that buys the house does....This happened to me in Texas, TWICE....had to get the contractor to pay for the disasters each time.

However.....the roofers.....I have seen them work in 107 degree heat with high humidity. They keep going until they drop or start vomiting. It's
pretty sad. I blame their employers, because, legal or not, those are some dreadfully harsh working conditions for any human being.

I knew a lot of Mennonites in west Texas, their work is stellar, whether it is carpentry, cabinetry, building furniture, windows, or even the women
who come in dresses and their little black caps and do what they call a 'deep cleaning'.....they're NOT kidding. Their floors are clean enough to do
surgery on.

Just a few observations. Most of those Mennonites come from Mexico (they are no respecters of borders) but have kept their German roots of
perfectionism down through the generations.

As much as I admire their work ethic.......our borders are way too porous for national security purposes.

Now imagine if the politicians and employers were the focus instead of the labor..

If they were punished nobody would come, they couldn't get a job and they wouldn't get welfare to subsidize the profits of the boarder states
industries like construction.

I used to drive through Abilene on the way to new Mexico and there were meat processing plants and ranches with literally hundreds maybe thousands of
illegals in one facility.

I would think you could roll up with the irs and start busting the businesses very easily. Seize their assets when they have over a certain amount of
Mexicans (like grams for drugs) boom more money. The competition not cheating will get a boost in sales.

originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
They just need to defund the War on Drugs, ramp up border inspections and seziures the big money side of the cartels, in one year abouts could pay for
the whole thing and baby formula.

Indeed you're right. President Trump just stated in a news conference that Mexico will pay for the wall one way or the other.

I don't think we have to have the wall, but I'd be a fool to bet against President Trump. He usually gets what he wants.

a reply to: Xtrozero
No, what I find repulsive is people who make jokes about turning women in to sex slaves. Just like you did.

You also state that the left turns a blind eye to human trafficking. Who teaches you such hogwash.

And finally you asked me to speak for the left. The left, as if it is a monolithic believe system. It is not, just like conservatism is not
monolithic. And I speak only for myself I do not speak for the left or the right . I, myself find your statements in that post repulsive. Care to
address that?

The only main stream media outlet for conservative news is Fox. By this i mean, turn on the TV and find another channel with viewpoints that are not
just a copy paste from one channel to the next. Even ESPN, which isn't a news outlet, has become liberal media by devoting significant airtime to
political issues.

There are questionable credibility websites, and there are blowhard editorialists like Rush on the radio. There are also some print publications that
are much more credible (when compared to morons like Rush).

Don't get me wrong...i would rather news not be seen as partisan. To do this is admitting that it isn't truthful news, and instead is bent towards
confirmation bias. Im only pointing out that the overwhelming majority of what passes for news in the US editorializes their news with a very heavy
liberal slant.

RE: the racism thing....the media is unanimous is the spectrum of belief spans from "he's a racist" to "is Donald Trump a racist?". Meanwhile, its
all a tempest in a teacup drummed up based on what he didn't say during a speech. It ignores his entire life that shows that he doesn't care about
race, and instead will take advantage of anyone regardless. He is an equal opportunity asshole. The whole race discussion is nothing more than the
democratic party trotting out their old tried and true from the Obama years. Except now they are painting anyone who would not condemn Trump as a
racist, too.

And their lapdog, the 95% of media that isn't conservative, is working right along side them to spread these lies.

RE: Russia...its always developing, and always escalating. LOL And now its September.

Just two weeks ago:
Trump to roll back Obama-era rule on rising sea levels
“Eliminating this requirement is self-defeating - we can either build smarter now, or put taxpayers on the hook to pay exponentially more when it
floods. And it will."

"Obama’s order required federally-funded projects to be two feet above the 100-year floodplain. Hospitals and other critical buildings must be three
feet above the historic floodplain.

The Obama administration also issued a rule requiring federally-financed single family homes must be built two feet above the 100-year floodplain.
"

"“Taxpayers have been made to shell out hundreds of billions of dollars in disaster-related spending over the past decade, including more than $136
billion for just the two years from 2011 to 2013,” senior fellow R.J. Lehmann said in a statement.

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